Here is an interesting one for you.
A new study showing a link between one international test score and improvements to a nation’s GDP.
For the United States, the research suggests, modest gains in student achievement as measured by one international assessment could cumulatively boost the country’s gross domestic product by tens of trillions of dollars over [...]
Entries Tagged as 'accountability'
Study links economic improvements to test scores
January 25th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: accountability · international tests
A real story about formative vs summative assessment
October 11th, 2009 2 Comments
The tension in the room was real. As a new professor to the university setting, my colleague had drug me along to a statewide task force meeting to discuss our statewide assessment problems. It was clear from the anxious faces around the room that people weren’t seeing eye-to-eye on how our statewide assessment system was [...]
Tags: accountability · assessment · national standards · school improvement · standardized testing · testing
Do “Common Core Standards” have to be developed openly to be “common?”
July 31st, 2009 1 Comment
As most of our readers would know, 46 states have signed on to develop a “Common Core” of educational standards, which means of course…that national standards have now arrived.
And…in the age of accountability…you know what comes next…some form of testing those national standards.
Which means that there is some consternation about what those standards will look [...]
Tags: accountability · Achieve Inc. · ACT · common core · curriculum · education · national standards
What do you think of National Standards?
June 5th, 2009 5 Comments
The big education news this week is that there are 46 states that have agreed to setting national standards in education. Washington Post article here.
Is this a good idea?
I didn’t use to think so.
Then I got tired of constant fussing and arguing over state standards and thought of the ineffectiveness of all 50 states constantly revising their [...]
Tags: accountability · education standards · national standards
Exams for school administrators
May 11th, 2009 No Comments
I am blogging from the Denver International Airport this evening while waiting for a red-eye flight to St. Louis, Missouri. Two of us are representing the state of Wyoming as part of a multi-state contingency that is participating in setting cut scores for a school administration exam. The Educational Testing Service (ETS) is one of [...]
Tags: accountability · ETS · exams · state tests · testing
The dirty little secret to setting proficiency levels!
April 11th, 2009 1 Comment
I am sitting at the computer here at lunch break during my EDAD 5010 class Principal as Curriculum Leader. The students headed for subway to bring back food for a working lunch. We have class all day today.
I am reflecting on a great question one of them asked at break. Brian asked “How are cut [...]
Tags: accountability · cut scores · proficiency levels · standardized testing · state exit exams · testing
Stimulus Money - Be careful what you ask for….
April 9th, 2009 No Comments
I think back to the 11 years I spent as Superintendent of Schools and reflect on the various federal grants and programs we worked with. The paperwork and bureaucracy for federal programs far exceeded any state grants or other programs we dealt with and seemed so highly inefficient to me that on many occasions that [...]
Tags: accountability · Arne Duncan · education funding · federal grants · federal money · grants · paperwork · stimulus money · stimulus package
